Why would his security people allow him to do that?

Or do these guys just post this kind of stuff without even running it by their security folks?

To me, this sounds like a security 101 type issue.

How would they stop him? Wrestle the phone out of his hands? He's in quarantine, anyway. Nobody is in the room with him.

The current UK PM is not the type to ask experts about whether it's a good idea, anyway.

Quarantine does not mean someone is alone. Just that their isolated from most of humanity.

It's not much of a quarantine if he's locked in with all his staff.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/boris-johnson-co...

> Johnson, on his doctor’s recommendation, has withdrawn into his chambers for seven days and will forgo all public appearances and in-person group meetings. He will have his food left at the door to his apartment, his aides said.

> “He’s self-isolating in his flat,” said his official spokesman.

Quaranteam

This sounds like a name for a suite of team collaboration software.

Every UK MP has his or her address listed publicly. In fact, this is a requirement to stand at election even at the town council level.

Yes, and every MP has a public email address that is staffed by slaves/interns/SpAds, they also have personal private emails that have much more sensitiive political information in them.

Doesn't have to be the candidate's home address. Some use the local constituency office address, for personal security and/or to avoid stalking by nutters.

On a couple of pictures you can see balcony doors, house layouts, ceilings, vents, etc, doors. Every now and then CNN shares photos of the houses of rich and famous. They must be taking them from some magazine. Anyway, I remember looking at Cara Delevingne's amazing home, and I noticed that apart from walls with decorations, furniture, bathtub, etc there was NO view of doors, windows, balcony doors. Basically anything that would give away the location of the rooms (e.g. photo of bedroom with trees outside that would help identify floor and where in the building that room is). I am sure that these people have far more important things (documents) in their homes than Cara (but far worse taste).

The woman in the bottom left corner has the right idea. A white wall! And you're right about their houses. However with everyone home and the plods out on the empty streets. Now is not the time for a B&E

What else?

For one, Michael Gove's username appears to be the first part of an email address...

Why is the exposing of a government employee's email address a security risk to you?

Edit, because downvotes: government email addresses can be retrieved easily through public records laws, and is done routinely, and can easily be scraped or inferred. I've done both many, many times, and it's trivial.

Well at the very least it presents a soft target for hacking into his personal email adddress (it's gmail not govenrment) and secondly, compromising it literally gives you access to dial into cabinet meetings.

Michael Gove has an illustrious history with his private emails as well: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17235168

Read my edit. Email addresses can be received through public records requests routinely. It's a public record!

This email address could be at any provider - perhaps it's his personal gmail address, for example.

And like one of the other comments in this chain points out - his personal email address was being used for government affairs, and that made it open to public records law suits. The public already has access to it.

Posting something like that on Twitter is like a dare.

Whose role in the Cabinet is as the 'Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster', which today essentially means a minister without portfolio.